The Loves of the Angels

Sermon 19 on The Song of Songs

The love-inspired bride will go on speaking, will chatter without end
about her Bridegroom's excellence; and in order to entice more favors
from him she shows that the ones already received have not been
fruitless. To the words that have so long preoccupied us she adds:
"That is why the maidens love you beyond measure." In
effect she means: "It was not in vain, not without purpose, that
you emptied out the power of your name, O Beloved, and poured it on
my breasts; that is why the maidens love you so much." ...